Chatty

Android chats application built using kotlin.

Motivation

The app is a part of my portfolio projects. It showcases my skills regarding developing Android apps.

Download

You can download the app apk using this link.

Screenshots

Features

• Dark mode
• Archive chats
• Minimal design
• Real-time communication using websockets

Libraries

• Android Architecture Components
• Kotlin
• Data Binding
• Room (DB)
• Koin (DI)
• Retrofit
• Moshi
• Okhttp

Architecture

The app uses Clean Architecture with MVVM design pattern. It's divided into 3 main modules.

Domain

Contains all the models. It's split into 2 packages.

• Model

  Contains app models.

• Repository

  Contains repositories interfaces which are used by ViewModels and implemented in the Data module.

Data

Contains repositories implementations and DataSources interfaces. It's split into 2 packages.

• Local

  Contains interfaces to preform actions locally and implemented in the Local module.

• Remote

  Contains interfaces to preform actions remotely and implemented in the Remote module.

Presentation (app)

Contains all the UI and business logic.

Other modules

DI (Dependency Injection)

Contains Koin DI modules.

BuildSrc

Contains gradle dependencies and app configuration.

Remote

Contains network data sources implementations.

Local

Contains database data sources implementations.

Requirements

• JDK 11
• Android SDK
• Android N (API 23)
• Latest Android SDK Tools and build tools.

Running

./gradlew

License

Chatty is distributed under the terms of the Apache License (Version 2.0). See License for details.